by Jules Gomes, ME Forum
Leftist Founder Calls for ‘Mamdani Moment’ in Italy
A new party formed to influence Rome’s municipal elections faces accusations of seeking to Islamize Italy after it endorsed the inclusion of Arabic on the curriculum of a high school in the nation’s capital. The leadership of the leftist-founded party has stoked fears of Islamization by deploying provocative imagery and rhetoric guaranteed to incite anxiety over Muslim political dominance over Italian civilization.
Founded as a political movement in November by Francesco Tieri, a left-wing activist who embraced Islam, Muslims for Rome 2027 (MuRo2027) trumpets its Islamic supremacist stance by posting an image of Rome’s Colosseum crowned with a crescent moon on its Instagram account.
In a press statement announcing its creation, MuRo2027 stressed that Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York’s mayoral race had awakened the need for organizing the Muslim vote. “It’s the ‘Mamdani moment,’ I realize, and we want to embrace the unprecedented role of Muslims as political subjects, no longer political objects,” Tieri said.
“In view of the 2027 Rome Local Elections, we promote ideas and proposals of collective benefit consistent with our religious affiliation,” the group announced on its Instagram page.
The group triggered outrage on January 14 after it promoted the decision of the Eugenio Montale Linguistic High School to offer Arabic as a third language—after English—along with Chinese, French, and German, and advertised the school’s opening day on January 24.
“Arabic is spoken by tens of thousands of people in the capital,” MuRo2027 said in a press release. “Between do-goodism and nastiness regarding the presence of foreign origins, we stand with knowledge, therefore with good public education.”
The statement attacked a journalist and parliamentarian for opposing its endorsement of Arabic in the school’s curriculum, arguing that there are “also private Catholic high schools offering the same Arabic language curriculum.” The school’s website said it was offering international languages “to engage critically and dialectically with other cultures.”